Beauty Queens

Beauty Queens

2011 • 396 pages

Ratings38

Average rating3.6

15

A bunch of teenage beauty queens are stranded on an island. Sure they could go all Lord of the Flies, or they could tackle capitalism, the patriarchy, and the beauty industry. Each chapter is led with a “commercial” that both parodies a real world commercial with scathing accuracy and foreshadows plot developments in unexpected ways.

Without spoiling the actual story, you can expect sexy pirates in tight pants, Scottish James Bond preferring his haggis “boiled, not stir fried,” and sensational boy bands.

Also, add Libba Bray to the list of ridiculously skilled people I'll forever be in awe of.... She narrated the audiobook version of this herself and it's incredible.

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